Charles Goodyear - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Charles Goodyear - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Charles Goodyear (December 29, 1800 - July 1, 1860) is popularly renown as the inventor of vulcanized rubber. However we know today that ancient Mesoamericans achieved the same results in 1600 BC [1] (http://web.mit.edu/org/m/materialculture/www/rubberprocessing.html)."